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Originally Posted by BillyMac
It's a respiratory droplet infection.
While the efficiency of various types of masks can be debated, there can be no debate that wearing a mask is better than not wearing a mask, for both the mask wearer (protecting one's self, and others) and for those that don't wear a mask in the presence of others who may have COVID, either symptomatic, or asymptomatic, and are masked.
Mask wearing is a simple, common sense, and low-cost strategy to mitigate COVID transmission, with few serious side effects.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8084286/
Would mask wearing have prevented 800,000 deaths? No it wouldn't, but even a decrease of 1,000 deaths would have made mask wearing worth it.
Doctors wear masks during surgery for a reason and it's not to look cool. |
Surgeons wear surgical masks to keep from spitting their gum or sneezing into someones open body cavity.
Absolutely no study has shown that surgical masks do anyrhing for respiratory viruses. Real-time data has shown that masks in highly compliant countries and states where massks were mandated did little to reduce cases. Even fitted n95 have limited effectiveness and need to be changed often